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  • A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
  • The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
  • We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
  • We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
  • When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
  • The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
  • Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
  • The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
  • There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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  • Bruce Lee As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi
    When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bill Watterson As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
    The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Introduction
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Addison The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Carlos Gershenson A one-night-stander is someone who does not dare to explore the full potential of a relationship, just like a child who is afraid to go to the deep part of the pool. The latter does not want to learn how to swim, the former does not want to learn how to live.
    Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Michel de Certeau Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
    Bertil Ohlin
     
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  • Paxton Hood Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
    Paxton Hood
     
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  • Swami Ramdas Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome - all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Jean Paul Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Karl Marx Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Karl Kraus Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Karl Kraus Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Blaise Pascal Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Henry Fielding He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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